Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 392, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Read American
1: "O'Hara's Choice" is the final novel by this author who made his own exodus from this world in 2003.Leon Uris.2: In 2003 he said he had completed the last 3 volumes of his "Dark Tower" series and had revised the first volume.Stephen King.3: A werebeaver turns up in Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel on this famous pair of surveyors.Mason and Dixon.4: He was all at sea with 1951's "The Caine Mutiny" and back on board 20 years later with "The Winds of War".(Herman) Wouk.5: In "Dodsworth" by Sinclair Lewis, Sam Dodsworth is president of a car co. in this town that was "at its peak".Zenith.Round 2. Category: National Rhyme Time
1: An unmarried young woman from Bern.a Swiss miss.2: A live animal park in Lima.a zoo Peru (or Peru zoo).3: A Havana horn.a Cuba tuba.4: Central American ricotta.Belize cheese.5: Southeast Asian country's ointment.Vietnam balm.Round 3. Category: Oh, Craps!
1: The combo that totals one shy of "boxcars".5 and 6.2: Craps roll known as "ace-deuce".1 and 2.3: 4, easy.3 and 1.4: Hard 8.4 and 4.5: 10, easy.4 and 6.Round 4. Category: Geographic Pairs
1: Name of a famous hill in Cuba, or the Puerto Rican capital.San Juan.2: You can chalk up the fact these towns in Delaware and England share the same name.Dover.3: Nevada's oldest permanent white settlement, or the birthplace of Columbus.Genoa.4: Name of the "twin cities" on the Arkansas-Texas border.Texarkana.5: Island off New Jersey or Argentina, but Argentines call it "Isla de los Estados".Staten Island.Round 5. Category: Primary Colors
1: Paul Bunyan's Babe was a giant ox of this color.blue.2: Tom Clancy's first 2 novels had this color in their titles.red.3: It's the color mentioned in the title of the following.yellow.4: In the election of 1892, the Populist Party supported "free" this mineral (also a color).silver.5: The group known as "Code" this calls itself a "women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement".Code Pink.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!